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The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a motion by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and its chairman on leave, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to intervene in a lawsuit alleging the Biden administration colluded with social media companies to censor users’ posts.
Kennedy and CHD filed the motion to intervene on Oct. 26, days after the Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana accusing the White House, through its communication with tech firms, of violating the First Amendment.
Associate Justice Samuel Alito, in his lone dissent, said he would have granted CHD’s and Kennedy’s motion because denying it “may cause irreparable harm” to Kennedy, who he said is one of the alleged victims of a “‘coordinated campaign’ by high-level federal officials to suppress the expression of disfavored views on social media platforms.”
Calling today’s decision disappointing, CHD President and CEO Mary Holland said:
“The Government-Big Tech collusion to censor government critics, which is at the heart of this matter, raises the most significant threat to First Amendment freedom in our times.
“We agree wholeheartedly with Justice Alito’s dissent that allowing the Kennedy Plaintiffs to intervene would ensure that the Supreme Court reaches the merits of this case and would prevent “the irreparable loss of Mr. Kennedy’s First Amendment rights.”
Holland said Kennedy and CHD have been “directly harmed” and the court’s failure to allow intervention “means that our rights are likely to continue to be violated until spring or even June 2024.”
“This denial is particularly severe for Mr. Kennedy who is running for president, Holland said. “As Mr. Kennedy has been mentioned explicitly in communications between the government and social media platforms, we agree with Justice Alito that ‘he has a strong claim to standing, and the Government has not argued otherwise.’”
In his dissenting opinion, Alito wrote:
“The denial of intervention is likely to prevent Mr. Kennedy from vindicating the rights he claims until the spring of 2024 and perhaps as late as June of that year. And by that time, several months of the Presidential campaign will have passed.”
‘Our democratic form of government is undermined’
Today’s Supreme Court decision stemmed from the White House’s appeal to the Supreme Court for a stay of an injunction, granted July 4 by a lower court, in the Missouri et al. v. Biden et al. case.
The injunction would have prevented the Biden administration and several agencies from engaging in communication with social media companies to coerce them to censor “misinformation” or “disinformation” until the Missouri case was decided.
On Oct. 1, the Supreme Court stayed Doughty’s July 4 injunction (as amended by the 5th Circuit) until Oct. 20, when it ruled to maintain its stay until it could hear the case.
Alito, joined by Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, dissented in the Oct. 20 decision, stating the majority of the court did not undertake a full review of the record or explain its decision…
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